Comparison of calibration methods in the analysis of 2013 Brazilian National Health Survey data by Juliana Sena de Souza, Márcia Helena Barbian, Rodrigo Citton Padilha dos Reis

“…Furthermore, it is suggested to cross-reference information between the sample and subsample of the 2013 PNS to enable the exploration of methods such as data imputation, aiming to obtain more accurate and representative estimates. …”
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An Improved DGA Feature Clustering-Based Method for Transformer Fault Diagnosis by Yujie Zhang, Jian Feng, Shanyuan Wang

“…Based on multiple data sets, it is verified that the proposed method can effectively avoid the occurrence of invalid clustering, and the difference among different fault types based on multiple clustering spaces method is more obvious.…”
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High-Quality Sample Generation for Power System Transient Stability Assessment Based on Data-Driven Methods by Baoqin Li, Pengfei Fan, Qixin Chen, Rong Li, Kaijun Lin

“…The traditional method generates a significant quantity of samples for each specific topology. …”
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Quantitative description of internal 3D structure of a geological sample using algebraic topology methods by Mikhail Chernyavskiy, Vasilii Timoshenko, Andrey Morkovkin, Diana Manukovskaya, Andrey Zernyuk, Pavel Grishin, Andrey Kalashnikov, Eugene Grachev

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Developing Survey Methods for Collecting Individual Policy Narratives: A case study of climate change narratives using an engaged convenience sample by Wesley Wehde, Mildred Perreault

“…The first method relies on priming participants to consider certain narrative elements, while the other primes participants to consider the overarching narrative instead of individual elements. …”
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Critical values for 33 discordancy test variants for outliers in normal samples up to sizes 1000, and applications in quality control in Earth Sciences by Surendra P. Verma, Alfredo Quiroz-Ruiz, Lorena Díaz-González

“…As a result, the applicability of these discordancy tests is now extended up to 1000 observations of a particular parameter in a statistical sample. The new most precise and accurate critical values will result in more reliable applications of these discordancy tests than have been possible so far in various scientific and engineering fields, particularly for quality control in Earth Sciences. …”
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MCBA-MVACGAN: A Novel Fault Diagnosis Method for Rotating Machinery Under Small Sample Conditions by Wenhan Huang, Xiangfeng Zhang, Hong Jiang, Zhenfa Shao, Yu Bai

“…Secondly, the minimum variance term is designed to minimize the variance of sample distribution, so that the generated samples are distributed more evenly in the feature space, avoiding the problem of pattern collapse. …”
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A partial sum of singular‐value‐based reconstruction method for non‐uniformly sampled NMR spectroscopy by Zhangren Tu, Zi Wang, Jiaying Zhan, Yihui Huang, Xiaofeng Du, Min Xiao, Xiaobo Qu, Di Guo

“…Results on both synthetic and realistic NMR spectroscopy show that the proposed method can reconstruct a more consistent spectrum to the fully sampled one than other state‐of‐the‐art methods and have particular advantages on preserving low‐intensity peaks.…”
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Influence of the Method of Treatment of Samples of Biological Nature on the Results of Determination of Heavy Metals by Atomic Emission Spectroscopy by E. N. Blokhina, N. V. Kelus, V. S. Chuchalin

“…The article is devoted to the relevance of choosing sample preparation method for heavy metals concentration determination in biological sample by using atomic emission spectrometry. …”
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An Integrated Sample-Free Method for Agricultural Field Delineation From High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery by Yu Zhu, Yaozhong Pan, Tangao Hu, Dujuan Zhang, Jiajia Dai

“…However, common learning-based delineation methods face problems related to limited sample availability and weak transferability. …”
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Wound fluid sampling methods and analysis of cytokine mRNA expression in ulcers from patients with diabetes mellitus by Beatriz Barbieri, Amanda Silva, Joseane Morari, Flavia C. Zanchetta, Bianca Oliveira, Alexis Trott, Eliana P. Araújo, Geraldo Paula, Beatriz Guitton Renaud Baptista de Oliveira, Bruna Maiara Ferreira Barreto Pires, Maria Helena Melo Lima

“…The collected material was used for gene expression analysis of macrophage/monocyte-associated cytokines IL1-β, IL-6, TNF-α, regulatory cytokine IL-10 and growth factor TGFβ, via quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Both collection methods produced sufficient amounts of RNA, but significantly more RNA was collected using a cervical brush (brush 224.82 ng/μL vs. …”
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Determination Method of the Active Mg Content in the Melt of Ductile Iron by XU Zhen-yu, LI Da-yong, MA Xu-liang, WANG Li-hua

“…For the 120 statistical sample data，more than 80% of the prediction error is within ± 0. 004% for the regression formula of the Mg content，meeting the control requirements on line.…”
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Estimation of surface duct parameters using AIS data based on Bayesian inversion method by Hong-Guang Wang, Li-Jun Zhang, Jie Han, Li-Feng Huang, Qing-Lin Zhu

“…Subsequently, the inversion method steps are provided, and using the same measured AIS data, the likelihood function and posterior probability are calculated by directly employing historical samples and samples generated using Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS), to accomplish the estimation of surface duct parameters. …”
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Phase Current Equalization Method of IPMSM-Based on-Board Boost Converter for Electric Vehicles by Yunkyung Hwang, Jaehong Kim, Minhyeok Lee, Juwon Choi, Kwanghee Nam

“…To this end, a compensation method is proposed to obtain an accurate average current in the double-sampling method, which samples the top and valley. …”
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Detection of Candidemia in a Sample of Iraqi Neonates Admitted to the Neonates' Intensive Care Unit (NICU) by Conventional Methods by Mihad Nasif, Azhar Al-Attraqchi, Areej Mohammad

“…Detection of Candidemia in a sample of Iraqi neonates admitted to the neonates' intensive care unit (NICU) by conventional methods. …”
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Assessment of unsafe behavior types by safety behavior sampling method in oil refinery workers in 2009 and suggestions for control by N Hashemi Nejad, I Mohammad Fam, R Jafari Nodoshan, E Dortaj Rabori, H Kakaei, H Kakaei

“…Therefore, recognition of unsafe behavior types, and factors influencing them, would help prevent such behaviors. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study unsafe behaviors of workers in Kermanshah oil refining company were evaluated and analyzed using safety behavior sampling technique. …”
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Comparison of glucose concentration measured in samples collected with different anticoagulants and analyzed using 2 glucose quantification methods by Anay D. Ravelo, Megan Ruch, Isaac J. Salfer, Luciano S. Caixeta

“…Additionally, it was observed that in samples quantified with the HK method, the glucose concentrations were lower than when those samples were quantified with the PGO method. …”
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Enhancing landslide susceptibility modelling through a novel non-landslide sampling method and ensemble learning technique by Chao Zhou, Yue Wang, Ying Cao, Ramesh P. Singh, Bayes Ahmed, Mahdi Motagh, Yang Wang, Ling Chen, Guangchao Tan, Shanshan Li

“…Moreover, the LR model can effectively constrain the selection range of non-landslide samples. The non-landslide sampling method constrained by LR yields higher quality samples compared to raditional random sampling method with no constraints, which develops a more excellent LSM.…”
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Tripartite: Tackling Realistic Noisy Labels with More Precise Partitions by Lida Yu, Xuefeng Liang, Chang Cao, Longshan Yao, Xingyu Liu

“…Extensive experiments demonstrate that Tripartite can filter out noisy samples more precisely and outperforms most state-of-the-art methods on four benchmark datasets and especially real-world datasets.…”
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Comparison of manual and vacuum cleaner intake approaches efficiency for sampling subtropical ants using Winkler extractor across different habitats by Defu Chen, Peng Xiao, Mingrong Liang, Benoit Guénard, Yijuan Xu

“…In summary, the vacuum cleaner intake method showed only practical benefits but no major improvements in the characterization of the ant communities sampled across these habitats.…”
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